This was primarily a knitting blog…

Some knitting at last! There has been a little bit of knitting over the past few weeks although I find that not a lot gets done between Fregie Sack work, the babies and general living. By the time they go to bed I am tired – often too tired to concentrate even on stocking or garter stitch – Sam wont go to sleep until about 10pm and gets up for a feed between 4am and 6am and then sleeps depending on the time of feed til about 730-8. Sophie is going to bed at about 8pm and getting up at around 6-7…..we’re tired!

Anyway, some knitting progress…

The main thing I am working on is Sophie’s Jumper:

This is one of Mum’s old patterns that I picked out from the cover. When I opened the book up to it I saw Mum’s tiny writing telling me that she made this pattern up for me in 1979 and 1980! She used Bluebell and I am using Totem from her stash – she probably bought it in the 70’s. The pictures don’t show the colour all that well, it’s a lovely light apple green and it will look great with all the pink clothes Sophie has been given/lent.

The pattern was to be knitted in front, back, arms and collar but, as I dislike sewing up knitted garments, I have knitted the body in the round. I am almost up to the raglan shaping of the sleeves so I am hoping this jumper will be off the needles in a couple of weeks…

The second lot of knitting to show is my charity knitting. I have knitted up a beanie and a pair of booties – these are my December and January projects. You may remember that I was knitting an Aides jumper with the stash given to me by Trudi – I got this far though:

and ran out of yarn! So, I frogged it and knitted up these instead.

I have enough left for another beanie so I will use that for my February project and them I will move on to some other yarn from the many boxes now living in the shed.

My third knitting show and tell is a couple of pretty boring but easy dish clothes. I say boring as they are pretty boring to look at but they are great (and quick) to knit – just 5 plain, 5 pearl in a basket weave pattern. I have been reading Rhonda Jean’s blog a lot and have decided that I need more dish clothes….Next one will be the Mid February KAL .

My fourth bit of knitting to show is not something I have worked on recently other than to frog the sleeve I started many moons ago:

It’s the Jo Sharp Ribbed Wrap Jacket. I have dug this out of a box somewhere after seeing it on Trudi’s blog and feeling inspired. I am using the yarn and colour used in the pattern but, like Trudi, I still haven’t worked out what contrast colour I will use and I am kind of leaning towards using the same colour…..not sure, I will knit the sleeves and then decide.

So, that is what I have been doing in my spare time between babies, work and gardening! This blog still has some knitting!

The knitting looks great. One of the options I considered for the Ribbed Wrap Jacket collar was to dye some of the existing yarn black, but I’m concerned it’ll also dye the white flecks in the yarn I’m using. Your yarn might be okay – perhaps just deepen the original colour with some red food colouring, or shift it into the purple range with some blue. (Of course, you’ll have to make some pattern adjustment because it uses dk for the collar and the yarn for the body is aran weight.)

Rebecca, I’m in awe of your knitting. Perhaps you can tell me. When you do a basket weave pattern (I am a TOTAL novice), say you finish one row of 5 plain, 5 purl, 5 plain, 5 purl – when you turn around….do you start with plain or purl? My dishcloths are all knit, knit, knit – is that garter stitch? I’ve finally completed two that don’t have dropped/weird stitches in them.